Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Dunn, Clyde E 1881 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County 1914

Dunn, Clyde E., member of the well known firm of Hunter, Dunn & Co., of South 
Wilmington, as well as manager of the business, is one of the progressive 
young business men of Grundy County, and well worthy the appreciation shown 
his efforts.  He was born at Greensburg, Ind., in 1881, a son of William H. 
and Olessa J. (Glass) Dunn, both natives of Indiana where the father became a 
farmer.  Later these parents went to Clark City, Ill., where the father became 
boss foreman of the Gardner-Wilmington Coal Co., but now is in the grain 
business and also operates a lumber yard at Essex, Ill.  He is interested in 
public affairs and is serving as a member of the lower house of the State 
General Assembly.  The mother died in May, 1912, and is buried in the 
graveyard at Essex.  Their children were:  William L.; Vivian, who is the wife 
of A. C. Shimman; Clyde and four who are deceased.

Clyde E. Dunn attended school at Clark City until he began working for his 
father thus continuing for five years.  Realizing the need of a commercial 
training, he took a business course at Dixon, Ill., being graduated from a 
similar institution at Kankakee, Ill., in 1902.  In 1904 he came to South 
Wilmington, where he became bookkeeper for the Hunter Lumber Company.  When 
this concern was reorganized into the Hunter, Dunn & Co., he became a member 
of the new company.  The firm deals in lumber, lime, cement, sash, doors and 
all kinds of building material, with yards at the following places:  under the 
management of H. & E. F. Hunter, at Henry, Chillicothe, Sparland and 
Edelstein, Ill.,; under the management of Hunter, Allen & Co., at Winchester, 
Chapin, Meredosia, Varna, Griggsville, Lacon, Bluffs, Marseilles, Magnolia and 
Lostant, Ill.; under the management of Hunter, Dunn & Co., at South 
Wilmington, Ill.; under the management of Hunter, Stevens & Co., at Oglesby 
and La Salle, Ill.; under the management of Hunter, Rourke & Co., at Urbana 
and Ogden, Ill., and under the management of Hunter, Doherty & Co., at Spring 
Valley, Ill.

On March 24, 1908, Mr. Dunn was married to Ida Marvin of Joliet.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Dunn have one child, Dorothy, born in 1913.  They are Methodists, and 
fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen, at Gardner.  In politics, 
he is a Republican.  A young man with more than average ability, he is fast 
developing into a leader at South Wilmington where he has made many friends in 
both business and social circles.

Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914, p805-6

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